Priest Assignment Records and Case Details Released

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Detailed information on the assignment records and claim history of these abusers, together with sources, can be accessed by reading below as well as in the pdfs lnked above.

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Father T. Raymond Sullivan – Archdiocese of Boston

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1957 Ordained in the Archdiocese of Boston
1958 St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Dracut, MA
1959 – 1963 “Serving Outside the Diocese” (listed in Kenya, Africa)
1964 – 1967 “On Duty Outside the Diocese – Air Force” (no location given)
1968 “Serving Outside the Diocese” (listed in Kenya, Africa)
1969 St. Cecilia’s Church, Boston, MA
1970 St. Albert the Great Church, Weymouth, MA
1971 – 1976 St. Rita’s Church, Lowell, MA
1977 – 1982 St. Therese’s Church, Dracut, MA
1983 – 1994 St. Mary Magdalen Church, Tyngsboro, MA
Source:
  • The Official Catholic Directory, Kenedy & Sons

(The years listed above are the publication years of the Official Catholic Directory. According to the Directory, the assignments provided for a given year are effective as of January 1 of that year. This means that a priest listed in the Directory for a given year at a parish or school was likely at the same assignment for at least part of the previous year as well.)

Father Sullivan died in 1994.

Summary:
  • Father T. Raymond Sullivan was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least two occasions in approximately 1977 when the male child was approximately fourteen years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Sullivan was assigned to St. Therese’s Church in Dracut, Massachusetts, and the male child was a parishioner at the church. The sexual abuse took place inside the church and in the nearby rectory affiliated with the church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Sullivan included the following: Father Sullivan exposed Father Sullivan’s penis to the boy and told the boy to touch Father Sullivan’s penis.
  • The claim settled in January 2020 in the low five figures.

Father Patrick J. Tague – Archdiocese of Boston

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1963 Ordained
1963 – 1964 St. Margaret’s Church in Lowell, MA
1965 St. Thomas More's Church in Braintree, MA
1966 – 1967 St. Paul’s Church in Hingham, MA
1968 – 1969 St. Thomas Aquinas' Church in Bridgewater, MA
1970 – 1976 Absent on Leave
1977 – 2005 Not Indexed
Source:
  • The Official Catholic Directory, Kenedy & Sons

(The years listed above are the publication years of the Official Catholic Directory. According to the Directory, the assignments provided for a given year are effective as of January 1 of that year. This means that a priest listed in the Directory for a given year at a parish or school was likely at the same assignment for at least part of the previous year as well.)

Father Tague died in January, 2013.

In approximately 2006 Father Tague was dismissed from ministry.

Father Arthur Taraborelli – Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1964 Ordained in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia;
1965 – 1969 St. Gabriel Church, Stowe, PA;
1970 St. Francis Cabrini Church, Fairless Hills, PA
1971 – 1975 Visitation B.V.M. Church, Trooper, PA
1976 – 1979 Our Lady of Loreto Church, Philadelphia, PA
1980 – 1981 Holy Trinity Church, Morrisville, PA
1982 – 1986 St. Callistus Church, Philadelphia, PA
1987 Holy Spirit Church, Philadelphia, PA
1988 – 2006 St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Philadelphia, PA
Source:
  • The Official Catholic Directory, Kenedy & Sons

(The years listed above are the publication years of the Official Catholic Directory. According to the Directory, the assignments provided for a given year are effective as of January 1 of that year. This means that a priest listed in the Directory for a given year at a parish or school was likely at the same assignment for at least part of the previous year as well.)

Father Taraborelli died in 2006.

Summary:
  • Father Arthur Taraborelli was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on approximately fifty occasions from approximately 1975 to 1976 when the male child was approximately thirteen to fourteen years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Taraborelli was assigned to Our Lady of Loreto Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the boy was an altar boy at the church. The sexual abuse took place inside Our Lady of Loreto Church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Taraborelli included the following: Father Taraborelli performed oral
    sex on the boy and forced the boy to perform oral sex on Father Taraborelli. Father Taraborelli
    also inserted his finger into the boy’s anus and sodomized the boy.
  • The claim settled in October 2019 in the low six figures.

Father Toribio Villacastin – Archdiocese of Hartford

Assignment Record: No official assignment record.

Father Villacastin was ordained in the Diocese of Tagblaran, Philippines in 1981. He was a visiting priest in the Archdiocese of Hartford from approximately 1968 until approximately 1970. He assisted at St. Isaac Jogues Church in East Hartford, CT; and at St. Francis Church in Naugatuck, CT.

Father Villacastin left the priesthood in 1977. He died in 2008.

Source:
  • TThe Archdiocese of Hartford
Summary:
  • Father Toribio Villacastin was accused of sexually abusing a female minor child on at least twenty occasions from approximately 1969 when the female child was approximately eight years old until approximately 1970 when the female child was approximately nine years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Villacastin was assigned to St. Isaac Jogues Church in East Hartford, Connecticut, and the female child attended St. Isaac Jogues Church for religious services. The sexual abuse took place inside Wickham Park in East Hartford, CT; and inside the sacristy of St. Isaac Jogues Church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Villacastin included the following: Father Villacastin kissed the girl on the mouth and put his tongue in her mouth; Father Villacastin fondling the girl’s genitals skin on skin; Father Villacastin removing his penis from his pants to expose himself to girl; Father Villacastin masturbating in front of the girl; and Father Villacastin making the girl perform oral sex on Father Villacastin.
  • The claim settled in December 2022 in the low-to-mid six figures.
  1. Father Robert J. Vonnahmen – Diocese of Belleville
  2. Father Michael Wempe – Archdiocese of Los Angeles
  3. Father Michael Weston – Archdiocese of Chicago
  4. Father Harold Robert White – Diocese of Denver
  5. Father Benjamin D. Wysolmerski – Diocese of Burlington
  6. Father Theodore Zabowski – Diocese of Pittsburgh